If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
a. Take a few minutes to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher.
b. Describe some of your students' strengths and needs that you have noticed so far.
c. Download and complete this URI Self Evaluation form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Ensure that instruction is relevant and connected to students’ lives
It will help them stay engaged and to retain information presented
It should help produce more knowledgible students
RIBTS 2.5 and 2.6
2.
Engage all learners, challenge all students, and believe and expect that every student is both capable and can learn at high levels
Challenging them will push them to excell at higher learning levels
Students score higher on tests and exams
RIBTS 5.3 and 6.5
3.
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal is design my instruction so that it is relevent and meaningful to students' lives while challenging them at high levels of learning. I believe that this will take a great deal of facilitating instruction and creativity on my part. Many students dislike Chemistry because they find it to be too challenging, boring, or both. It will be my challenge to make the subject more interesting by tying in examples which students can relate to in their everyday lives while providing hands-on examples such as labs to reinforce the concepts that I teach.
I've always felt that by tying the subject matter that you are presenting into students' everday lives, or at least showing them how it relates to their lives, makes a bigger impact on their motivation to pay attention to what you (as the teacher) are talking about. Facilitating instruction can also be a tricky task due to time constraints on classes, especially large classes. Acting as a guide for instruction rather than a conveyer of information (or a dictator) takes time to accomplish but I feel that the student is more apt to retain the information if they are coming up with the answers to their questions instead of having the answer just handed to them. They are forced to think about the problem at hand, use their prior knowledge/logical thinking skills, and come up with an answer on their own using the guidence of the instructor for assistence. I see a great deal of practical application and real-life connection of subject material in many of the classes that I have observed at Coventry High School. There is also a great deal of encouragement/motivation being demonstrated by the faculty toward their students.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
The two categories of Professional Development that I believe will be most beneficial to me as a first year teacher are to attend conferences/workshops and training sessions and to complete college/university coursework. The reason that I have chose to attend conferences/workshops and training sessions is that these events are often filled with other educational professionals who have a multitude of ideas and strategies which I am sure that I will find useful to my teaching style. I feel fairly confident in my content knowledge but I know that I will require experience/guidance in my instructional methods and delivery. The reason that I have also chose to complete college/university coursework is that I wish to aquire my masters degree in secondary education. I believe that by aquiring more knowledge about the teaching profession and how it works is a move that will always work in my favor. In addition to that I feel that the more education a teacher has the better equipped they will be to educate their students.
My professional development goal is design my instruction so that it is relevent and meaningful to students' lives while challenging them at high levels of learning, and I believe by pursuing the two catagories of professional development described above will better prepare me to meet those goals. By collaborating with other educators who have more experience in the field than I do I hope to gain a better understanding of effective presentation/delivery. Similarly by working with professionals in a university/college setting I hope to learn more about how to develop my own strategies for instruction.
Print your PD plan to PDF
Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Synthesis
If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
You can review the Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards (RIBTs) here.
a. Take a few minutes to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher.
b. Describe some of your students' strengths and needs that you have noticed so far.
c. Download and complete this URI Self Evaluation form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal is design my instruction so that it is relevent and meaningful to students' lives while challenging them at high levels of learning. I believe that this will take a great deal of facilitating instruction and creativity on my part. Many students dislike Chemistry because they find it to be too challenging, boring, or both. It will be my challenge to make the subject more interesting by tying in examples which students can relate to in their everyday lives while providing hands-on examples such as labs to reinforce the concepts that I teach.I've always felt that by tying the subject matter that you are presenting into students' everday lives, or at least showing them how it relates to their lives, makes a bigger impact on their motivation to pay attention to what you (as the teacher) are talking about. Facilitating instruction can also be a tricky task due to time constraints on classes, especially large classes. Acting as a guide for instruction rather than a conveyer of information (or a dictator) takes time to accomplish but I feel that the student is more apt to retain the information if they are coming up with the answers to their questions instead of having the answer just handed to them. They are forced to think about the problem at hand, use their prior knowledge/logical thinking skills, and come up with an answer on their own using the guidence of the instructor for assistence. I see a great deal of practical application and real-life connection of subject material in many of the classes that I have observed at Coventry High School. There is also a great deal of encouragement/motivation being demonstrated by the faculty toward their students.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
The two categories of Professional Development that I believe will be most beneficial to me as a first year teacher are to attend conferences/workshops and training sessions and to complete college/university coursework. The reason that I have chose to attend conferences/workshops and training sessions is that these events are often filled with other educational professionals who have a multitude of ideas and strategies which I am sure that I will find useful to my teaching style. I feel fairly confident in my content knowledge but I know that I will require experience/guidance in my instructional methods and delivery. The reason that I have also chose to complete college/university coursework is that I wish to aquire my masters degree in secondary education. I believe that by aquiring more knowledge about the teaching profession and how it works is a move that will always work in my favor. In addition to that I feel that the more education a teacher has the better equipped they will be to educate their students.My professional development goal is design my instruction so that it is relevent and meaningful to students' lives while challenging them at high levels of learning, and I believe by pursuing the two catagories of professional development described above will better prepare me to meet those goals. By collaborating with other educators who have more experience in the field than I do I hope to gain a better understanding of effective presentation/delivery. Similarly by working with professionals in a university/college setting I hope to learn more about how to develop my own strategies for instruction.